Wednesday, September 09, 2015

In 1973, the Supreme
Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade
established a woman's right to an abortion, but in the forty plus years since
that historic decision conservatives have been working to fundamentally rewrite
our nation’s abortion laws. For years
activists have been calling this assault on women’s reproductive rights the
"war on women" and describe it as an ongoing struggle, but according
to Molly Redden of Mother Jones this onslaught of new
abortion restrictions has been so successful, so strategically designed, and so
well coordinated that the war in many places has essentially been lost. Molly joins me today to talk all about how
the “War on Women” is over, and how women lost.

Over the past few years
organized labor has suffered sharp declines in both numbers and influence as a
result of the economic recession, the outsourcing of jobs, and in many parts of
the country the aggressive attacks launched by billionaire backed anti-union
groups on collective bargaining rights, while at the same time, employers have
demanded steep concessions from unions. As a result, inequality in income and
wealth has continued to grow throughout the country, and is especially
pronounced along racial lines with African American workers consistently
earning less than their white counterparts.
However, a recent study conducted by two professors affiliated with the
Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University
of New York has found that despite the national trend African American union
workers in New York City have made economic gains, and that raising the rate of
unionization among African American workers across the country would help
narrow the racial pay gap. Joining me
today to discuss the report and its findings is Stephanie Luce, Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University of New YorkSchool of Professional Studies, who is one of the report’s authors.

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